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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 3
NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
With budget cuts,
Obama's options
are limited
Barack Obama promises a line-
by-line scrub of the federal budget
to root out wasteful programs.
But as a practical matter, entire
chapters of the $3 trillion federal
budget are off limits - and the pres-
ident-elect's Democratic allies in
Congress are bracing to defend farm
subsidies, weapons systems and
home-state pork barrel projects.
"We cannot sustain a system
that bleeds billions of taxpayer
dollars on programs that have
outlived their usefulness, or exist
solely because of the power of
a politician, lobbyist or interest
group," Obama said when intro-
ducing budget director Peter
Orszag two weeks ago. "We simply
cannot afford it."
Indeed, with the federal budget
deficit at a record level and head-
ing higher, Obama is committed to
identifying savings to slow the red
ink. Not to mention finding a way
to pay for big spending increases
for programs he promised in his
presidential campaign.
NEW YORK
Malaria vaccine
shows promise in
trials in Africa
A vaccine that may become the
world's first to prevent malaria
shows promise in protecting Afri-
can children, researchers said yes-
terday, calling the results a "major
milestone."
In early tests, the experimental
vaccine was more than 50 percent
effective in preventing the deadly
disease in infants and toddlers in
two countries in Africa, the scien-
tists said. A larger and longer test is
expected to begin early next year,
the latest effort at slowing a disease
that kills nearly 1 million people
annually.
It is the first malaria vaccine
to make it this far, and if further
studies are successful, marketing
approval could be sought as early
as 2011. The vaccine was developed
by the British-based GlaxoSmith-
Kline PLC.
-Theresults"addtoourconfidence
that we are closer than ever before"
to amalaria vaccine for African chil-
dren, Dr. Christian Loucq, director
of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Ini-
tiative, said during a teleconference
from New Orleans.
WASHINGTON
Prosecutors say
Blackwater actions
unprovoked in Iraq
Wild, unprovoked gunfire and
grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis
and hurt dozens more in a 2007
Baghdad attack, prosecutors said
Monday in announcing charges
with mandatory 30-year prison
terms against five Blackwater
Worldwide security guards.
The Justice Department called
the shooting a shocking and devas-
tating violation of human rights.
The harsh words echoed the
outrage of Iraqis, who have waited
more than a year to see how the
U.S. would respond to the shooting
on a busy street in the Iraqi capital.
The five security guards - all
decorated military veterans - sur-
rendered in federal court in Utah,
where one of them lives. The five
guards walked wordlessly through
a phalanx of reporters. A judge
ordered the guards to report to a
Washington courthouse Jan. 6,
where they were expected to plead
not guilty.
SAN DIEGO
Military jet crash
kills two on ground
A military fighter jet preparing
to land at a Marine base crashed
in a densely populated San Diego
neighborhoodyesterday,killingtwo
people on the ground and destroy-
ing two houses, officials said.
The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet
jet ejected safely, according to a
statement from Marine Corps Air
Station Miramar.
M Mayor Jerry Sanders said two
people on the ground were killed.
Fire officials said the deaths were
at a home where two children, a
mother and a grandmother were
believed to be inside. Officials did
not immediately know who died.
Two houses were destroyed and
one damaged, said San Diego City
Councilwoman Marti Emerald,
who viewed the aftermath.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
Laid-off workers
sit in at factory
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Rod
Blagojevich ordered all state
agencies yesterday to stop doing
business with Bank of America
to try to pressure the bank into
helping laid-off workers staging
a sit-inat their shuttered factory.
The governor wants the North
Carolina-based bank to use some
of its federal bailout money to
resolve the protest by about 200
workers at Republic Windows
and Doors.
The sit-in began Friday and
has fast become a symbol of the
sour economy's impact on labor.
The workers have promised to
remain inside the plant in shifts
until they get assurances they
will receive severance and vaca-
tion pay.
"We hope that this kind of
leverageandpressurewill encour-
age Bank of America to do the
right thing for this business,"
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Blagojevich said from outside the
plant. "Take some of that federal
tax money that they've received
and invest it by providing the
necessary credit to this company
so these workers can keep their
jobs."
Republic has not made a move
to evict the workers since they
began the sit-in Friday, the day
they lost their jobs with just a few
days' notice.
Their plight has drawn sup-
port from President-elect Barack
Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson
and others.
"We're going strong," Leah
Fried, an organizer for the Unit-
ed Electrical Workers union,
said earlier yesteday. "We're not
going anywhere until there's
resolution."
Fried said the company told
the union that Bank of America
canceled its financing.
Brigade General Carol Ann
Fausone, assistant adjutant gen-
eral of the State Department of
Military and Veterans Affairs in
Lansing, worked with Briggs and
Harris in the organization of the
service project.
"All of this wouldn't have hap-
pened if the University of Michi-
gan hadn't selected our veterans,"
Fausone said.
The apparel,whichranged from
shorts and T-shirts to sweatshirts
and windbreakers, was stored in
a western Ann Arbor warehouse
provided by First Class Services,
Inc., a carpet cleaning company.
Jim Fagan, the owner of the
carpet cleaning company and a
veteran of 13 years, decided to
contribute to the project in an
effort to help out the veteran com-
munity. He said that although the
vast majority of the boxes had
been shipped last week, about
$90,000 worth of shoes remains
at the warehouse and will be
shipped out to the Detroit Veter-
ans Center early next week.
The Ann-Arbor based Graf-
O'Hara VFW Post 423 paid for
the shipping costs, including the
shipment of 145 pairs of shoes to
Ira. Bonoar sail
TRASH FASHION
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While students discarded these
items because they had worn out
their intended use, to the "Trashy"
team, the garbage was a crucial
part of "contemporary and ready
to wear garments," Roberts said.
Through the process of designing
the apparel, the discarded items
were transformed so that the
clothes do not even resemble the
"trash" materials they were made
from.
For Roberts, the "Trashy" cloth-
ing line was more than just a class
project.
"This is an attempt to show soci-
ety that creativity and recycling
can mix in very modern and inter-
esting ways," he said.
Roberts said the idea to use
garbage to construct clothing was
meant to address waste and over-
flowinglandfills.
"Ann Arbor's 'smallest' closed
landfill holds 820,000 tons of
garbage," he said. "If we can do
our part to recover and recycle
items that would otherwise end
up in said landfill, then we can
create clothes that are not only
wearable, but environmentally
friendly."
Baczewski said she hopes the
project inspires students to be cre-
ative and think about waysto reuse
items they own.
However, Baczewski said she
was worried that the message
might be interpreted a different
way.
"We want to say, 'Look at what
University students Kristina Kassem and Clark Baxtresser pose in clothes made
completely out of other peoples' garbage as part of a fashion line.
you can do with what you already we've done with trash they will
have' but I thought it might come be inspired to do something cre-
off as, 'Look at what you need to ative with what they find around
buy,"' she said. them," Baczewski said. "Anyone
While the class is over, the stu- can be creative and it's really fun
dents said they hope to expand the when someone compliments you
line and showcase the outfits in a on your outfit to say, 'Thanks! I
fashion show in the spring. made it out of my old shower cur-
"I think when students see what tain!'"
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